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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 03:10:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 02:20:33 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> I initially didn't like KDE 4, but kind of swallowed it and learned
> to like it, and then later, found it was quite right for me. I
> didn't switch to KDE 4 until some time after its release, so some of
> the bugs had been ironed out.

Linus Torvalds famously abandoned KDE when version 4 came out. I think he 
(along with a lot of others) didn’t notice the caveat attached to the 4.0 
release that it was just meant as a developer preview.

It became more usable from 4.1 onwards, which is when I started using it 
in ang^H^H^Hearnest.